'The cat is out of the bag': Secret funders of centrist Democratic group Third Way revealed!

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37. Coming Soon to a Democratic Primary: Candidates Backed By Charles Koch

By Philip Elliott
June 7, 2019

The political arm of Charles Koch’s ambitious network is preparing to start playing in Democratic primaries for the Senate, House and local roles, according to a memo being sent Friday.

The decision is the result of a gradual shift away from aggressive and conservative politics inside the deep-pocketed donor network and one more toward comity and compromise.

Several major donors had bristled at the partisan image built around the Koch network and have been lobbying leaders to get behind candidates that promote progress on issues like immigration reform, regardless of their party. The groups will try to find candidates from either party that commit to pieces of the Koch agenda.

https://time.com/5602691/charles-koch-democratic-primaries/

And peviously:

Koch Industries secretly funded a report by Third Way, a centrist Democratic think tank, to sell liberals on their trade agenda, according to the new book “Kochland” by investigative reporter Christopher Leonard.

The Kochs enlisted the help of Third Way, a corporate-funded centrist group that has long opposed progressive populists like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, after the Democrats won control of Congress in 2006, according to excerpts from Leonard's book

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/14/koch-brothers-funded-centrist-democratic-group-third-way-according-to-new-book/